FAT blocks at vrepair hang
brnoadhi1
my novell has 2 volume : SYS, DAT at different drive.
yesterday when i want to boot my novell, it was succesfull mount sys
but when try mount dat it automatically run vrepair. Then after an hour
I'm waiting for, the vrepair display "volume repair was not possible".
here is the display:
Total Errors : 16
FAT Blocks>....
<
Volume repair was not possible.
I've tried to make a clone disk of DAT, when I try to mount the clone
one it will display:
Total Errors : 301
FAT
Blocks>...........................................................<
Volume repair was not possible.
Any one can help me?
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David Gersic
<brno...@no-mx.forums.novell.com> wrote:
>yesterday when i want to boot my novell, it was succesfull mount sys
>but when try mount dat it automatically run vrepair. Then after an hour
>I'm waiting for, the vrepair display "volume repair was not possible".
>
>here is the display:
>Total Errors : 16
>
>FAT Blocks>....
><
>Volume repair was not possible.
load vrepair.nlm
Select "2" to get to the Options
Select "2" to write all entries to disk
Return to the main menu, and try to repair your DAT volume again. If
that doesn't work, you're probably going to have to restore from
backups.
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brnoadhi1
i tried to run vrepair again and i log the error report.
Here are the log:
/****************************************************************************/
VRepair error log file for volume DAT.
Start 3:38:13 am
Checking volume DAT:
/****************************************************************************/
FAT Chain Error Report
Error in Primary FAT Chain entry 0 (block sequence 0 of 149).
Both the primary and mirror entries are unreadable.
Primary FAT Entry - COULD NOT BE READ
Mirror FAT Entry - COULD NOT BE READ
Corrected FAT Entry
Sequence value: 0
Link value: 1
/****************************************************************************/
FAT Chain Error Report
Error in Mirror FAT Chain entry 4 (block sequence 0 of 149).
Both the primary and mirror entries are unreadable.
Primary FAT Entry - COULD NOT BE READ
Mirror FAT Entry - COULD NOT BE READ
Corrected FAT Entry
Sequence value: 0
Link value: 5
/****************************************************************************/
FAT Chain Error Report
Error in Primary FAT Chain entry 1 (block sequence 1 of 149).
Both the primary and mirror entries are unreadable.
Primary FAT Entry - COULD NOT BE READ
Mirror FAT Entry - COULD NOT BE READ
Corrected FAT Entry
Sequence value: 1
Link value: 2
/****************************************************************************/
FAT Chain Error Report
Error in Mirror FAT Chain entry 5 (block sequence 1 of 149).
Both the primary and mirror entries are unreadable.
Primary FAT Entry - COULD NOT BE READ
Mirror FAT Entry - COULD NOT BE READ
Corrected FAT Entry
Sequence value: 1
Link value: 6
/****************************************************************************/
David Gersic
<brno...@no-mx.forums.novell.com> wrote:
>i tried to run vrepair again and i log the error report.
Looks to be like the volume is dead. You'll need to restore from